Fedora 26 : wordpress (2017-2ae4a42cd4)

high Nessus Plugin ID 101594

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

**WordPress 4.7.3 is now available**. This is a security release for all previous versions and we strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately.

WordPress versions 4.7.2 and earlier are affected by six security issues :

- Cross-site scripting (XSS) via media file metadata.
Reported by Chris Andrè Dale, Yorick Koster, and Simon P. Briggs.

- Control characters can trick redirect URL validation.
Reported by Daniel Chatfield.

- Unintended files can be deleted by administrators using the plugin deletion functionality. Reported by xuliang.

- Cross-site scripting (XSS) via video URL in YouTube embeds. Reported by Marc Montpas.

- Cross-site scripting (XSS) via taxonomy term names.
Reported by Delta.

- Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) in Press This leading to excessive use of server resources. Reported by Sipke Mellema.

Thank you to the reporters for practicing responsible disclosure.

In addition to the security issues above, WordPress 4.7.3 contains 39 maintenance fixes to the 4.7 release series. For more information, see the [release notes](https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.7.3) or consult the [list of changes](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&milestone =4.7.3&group=component&col=id&col=summary&col=component&col=status&col =owner&col=type&col=priority&col=keywords&order=priority).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected wordpress package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-2ae4a42cd4

https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.7.3

http://www.nessus.org/u?bbd8ba79

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 101594

File Name: fedora_2017-2ae4a42cd4.nasl

Version: 3.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/17/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:wordpress, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:26

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 4/1/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/1/2017

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